Self-reported psychological distress and self-perceived health in residents living near pesticide-treated agricultural land: a cross-sectional study in The Netherlands

Simões, Mariana; Huss, Anke; Janssen, Nicole; Vermeulen, Roel

doi:10.1136/oemed-2021-107544

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“…Ecosystem service model input for development of high-resolution ecosystem service supply and use maps (Paulin et al, 2020) Parcel geometry for time series of Sentinel-1 database statistical summaries for 770,000 agricultural parcels (Kumar et al, 2021) Field-specific crop data and parcel geometry for assessment of Common Agricultural Policy fields coverage by satellite imagery (Meier et al, 2020) Spatial distribution of pesticide usage for assessment of mental health in relation to distance to chemically treated crops (Simoes et al, 2022) Crop type training set for satellite radar-based land-use classification (Gella et al, 2021) Parcel geometry for development of an automated grassland monitoring system (Hardy et al, 2021) Calculation of variation in land-use intensity between land-use types (De Felici et al, 2019)…”

Section: Brp Data Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Agricultural Biodiversity: Legacy data and tensions between ways of seeing fields

Craft

Beaulieu

Piersma

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Mapping is a core approach used to investigate and display spatial dynamics of biological diversity and habitats. In the Netherlands, agricultural lands occupy nearly two-thirds of the land surface and provide the greatest potential for habitat restoration; particularly in grassland-based dairy production systems, which comprise the largest share of these agricultural lands. When a crop rotation is applied to a long-term grassland, the resulting disruption of ecological complexity requires years–if not decades–to restore, even after reconversion. The availability of high-quality land-use data for measuring the spatio-temporal distribution of grassland legacies is thus essential for monitoring the dynamics of biodiversity in production grasslands. In this study, we reflect on the Basic Crop Registration (BRP) of the Netherlands, an open spatial data infrastructure developed for parcel-level crop registration and examine how it shapes our spatio-temporal understanding of land use. The BRP serves as an administrative basis for numerous national and local-level regulatory and financial arrangements, mainly aimed at agricultural actors. In this study, we repurposed BRP data to introduce a new perspective on depicting the stability of grasslands in a high-intensity agricultural region. We used this data to map the frequency of grassland-to-cropland conversions using 17 years of longitudinal crop records in southwest Friesland, Netherlands. The legacy effects of grassland-to-cropland conversion were investigated in a field study, where significant differences were found between new and long-term grasslands in plant community composition, soil organic matter content, bulk density, soil penetration resistance, and pH. In our analysis of BRP data, we discovered a significant number of grasslands that were recently converted from cropland but that were recorded as long-term grasslands. This affected approximately 12% of the study area from 2005–2021, which prevents the accurate tracking of grassland stability over time. This misclassification also adds uncertainty to the temporal context of the decline in grassland-dependent species in the region. However, using a spatially-explicit mapping approach, these misclassifications can be corrected and help produce an effective measure of grassland stability with potential as an agroecosystem monitoring tool for researchers, land-use planners, and policymakers.

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confidence: 99%

Mapping Agricultural Biodiversity: Legacy data and tensions between ways of seeing fields

Craft

Beaulieu

Piersma

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Exploring associations between residential exposure to pesticides and birth outcomes using the Dutch birth registry

Simões

Vermeulen

Portengen

et al. 2023

Environment International

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Living in the vicinity of pesticide-treated crop fields: Exploring associated perceptions and psychological aspects in relation to self-reported and registry-based health symptoms

Gerbecks,

Baliatsas,

Yzermans

et al. 2024

BMC Psychol

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Background Exposure to pesticides in the living environment can be associated with the prevalence of health symptoms. This study investigates associations between health symptoms among residents in areas with fruit crop fields where pesticides are applied, and psychological perceptions and attitudes about environmental aspects and exposures. Methods A cross-sectional survey combined with routine primary care electronic health records (EHR) data was conducted in 2017 in rural areas of the Netherlands with high concentration of fruit crops (n = 3,321, aged ≥ 16 years). Individual exposure to pesticides was estimated using geocoded data on fruit crops around the home. Validated instruments were used to assess symptom report and psychological perceptions and attitudes. Annual prevalence of various health symptoms was derived from EHRs. Multilevel regression models were used to analyze associations between health symptoms (outcome), fruit crops, and multiple psychological perceptions and attitudes (confounders). Results Living in the vicinity of fruit crop fields was generally not associated with self-reported symptom duration and general practitioner (GP) registered symptoms. For self-reported symptoms, symptom prevalence decreased when crop density within 250 m and 500 m from the home increased. No associations were found at other distances. Furthermore, higher levels of environmental worries, perceived exposure, and perceived sensitivity to pesticides and attribution of symptoms to environmental exposures were generally associated with a higher number of self-reported symptoms, and longer symptom duration. Symptoms reported to GPs were not associated with psychological perceptions and attitudes, except for perceived sensitivity to pesticides. Conclusion Psychological perceptions and attitudes appear to be related to self-reported symptoms, but not to GP-registered symptoms, independent of the actual levels of exposure as measured by the size of the area of crop fields. Perceptions about environmental factors should be taken into account in environmental health risk assessment research when studying health symptoms.

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Self-reported psychological distress and self-perceived health in residents living near pesticide-treated agricultural land: a cross-sectional study in The Netherlands

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Mapping Agricultural Biodiversity: Legacy data and tensions between ways of seeing fields

Mapping Agricultural Biodiversity: Legacy data and tensions between ways of seeing fields

Exploring associations between residential exposure to pesticides and birth outcomes using the Dutch birth registry

Living in the vicinity of pesticide-treated crop fields: Exploring associated perceptions and psychological aspects in relation to self-reported and registry-based health symptoms

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